BOLIVIA — The Brunswick Community College Board of Trustees approved a request from the Welding Technology Department to have a live project through which students create projects in the classroom and sell their goods.

With funds from the project, students will be able to create a special account allowing them to replenish their goods and to make more items in class, board member Gene Steadman said during the board’s regular meeting Nov. 17. Other live projects, like a plant sale by the horticulture department, exist already on campus, he said.

SHALLOTTE — The Grand Strand Area Transportation Study (GSATS) hosted an open house meeting on long-range transportation planning Nov. 16 at Shallotte Town Hall.

About 20 visitors dropped in at the town aldermen’s’ meeting room to share their interests.

While the number of participants wasn’t huge for a Wednesday lunchtime meeting, GSATS encourages participating online through the project WikiMap, an interactive mapping application that allows users to pinpoint areas to identify transportation issues at tinyurl.com/GSATSwikimap.

LELAND — The road to a multi-use path along Old Fayetteville continues to be long and winding for Leland officials.

Town board members decided at their Thursday, Nov. 17, meeting if the project was a path they wanted to continue following.

The Old Fayetteville Road multi-use path was submitted to the Wilmington Metropolitan Planning Organization (WMPO) in 2013. The WMPO received federal funding for pedestrian projects, which would be funded with approval of the project design by the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

SHALLOTTE — Planning for realigning Wall Street and Shallotte Avenue where they intersect with Main Street began the three-year process to construction with a North Carolina Department of Transportation meeting with Shallotte officials Nov. 14.

The project has a let date, to go out to contractor bid, in August 2019.

“It’s still in the preliminary stages,” Shallotte Mayor Walt Eccard said of the meeting, adding town officials first met with NCDOT representatives earlier this year to select an engineer to design the realignment.

A Burlington man is accused of sex crimes involving a child that happened 16 years ago in Oak Island.

Alamance County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested 45-year-old James Floyd Cameron at his Baptist Church Loop Road home Nov. 18 on two felony charges: indecent liberties with a child and committing a crime against nature.

According to warrants issued by Oak Island police June 6, 2004, Cameron committed the sex crimes when he was 30 against a victim younger than 16 between June 1, 2001, and Aug. 1, 2001.